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Source: Venture Beat Intel unveiled new Intel Core Ultra 9 processors today at CES 2025 with as much as two or three times the edge performance on AI apps. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge Birdfy has announced the Birdfy Bath Pro, a camera-equipped smart bird bath that lets you watch your local birds as they plop into the water to wash up. The device features two lenses — a wide-angle one and an auto-tracking one — and an optional AI analysis feature that keeps track of…
Source: Venture Beat SolidddVision smartglasses, which correct vision for people living with vision loss due to macular degeneration, will debut at CES. Read Full Article
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25819332/googlebing.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Microsoft is using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google")
Source: The Verge Microsoft is pulling yet another trick to get people to use its Bing search engine. If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like… Google. It’s a clear attempt from Microsoft to make Bing look…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25431700/STK201_SAM_ALTMAN_CVIRGINIA_A.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "OpenAI’s Sam Altman says ‘we know how to build AGI’")
Source: The Verge OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is confident that it knows “how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it,” referring to the tech industry’s long-sought benchmark of artificial general intelligence. And he predicts that AI agents capable of autonomously performing certain tasks may start to “materially change the…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25818869/Screenshot_2025_01_05_at_10.57.43_PM.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "This outdoor security cam adds a second camera that moves and zooms")
Source: The Verge Home security cameras are usually good at getting a wide shot of your yard and whatever’s passing through it — but a new camera can help you get a close-up on your visitors, too. Tapo’s new HybridCam Duo camera sticks two cameras together: a more traditional security camera with a wide-angle lens, plus…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25818795/PalmKey_Smart_Lock.jpg?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "Tapo’s palm-scanning door lock promises a full year of battery life")
Source: The Verge Tapo is the latest brand trying to let you open your front door with just a wave of your palm. The company announced the PalmKey smart door lock today, which lets you enter the house with a PIN, a fingerprint, or a palm scan. The palm scanner requires your hand to be…
Source: Venture Beat Intuition Robotics, creators of the award-winning ElliQ AI companion robot, announced a new ElliQ solution to help caregivers. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge More than a year after launching its smart TV platform in Europe, TiVo is now bringing it to the US. The company’s putting its TiVo OS platform inside a new Sharp TV arriving as soon as February, rivaling the likes of Roku, Google TV, and Amazon’s Fire TV. TiVo first announced TiVo…
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25357666/STK259_MICROSOFT_COPILOT_2__A.png?w=600&resize=600,400&ssl=1 "LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs")
Source: The Verge LG and Samsung have both announced their 2025 smart TVs at CES this weekend, and some of them will include access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant. Both TV manufacturers are chasing the artificial intelligence hype train with dedicated AI sections on their smart TVs that include a shortcut to a Copilot web…
